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. End of July. Caesarea. The patriarch of Jerusalem (Robert of Nantes) informs Queen Blanche of France of the health of King Louis of France, his queen and his youngest sons Iohannes de Damietta and Petrus, born at Castrum Peregrini on 29 June. He describes how the king camped before Caesarea on 1 April and began work on its fortifications. He reports that Aleppo and Egypt are at war with each other and that the sultan of Aleppo (al-Nāṣir Yūsuf) suffered major defeat on 2 February 1251. The Egyptians, commanded by Fāris al-Dīn Aqṭāy (Feres Cerataye) had been at Nablus from shortly after Louis arrived in Caesarea until the end of July and withdrew on the approach of another Aleppan army that is expected to endeavour to invade Egypt.